Dominican Republic - Two Dominican journalists arrested summarily during drug raids

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the heavy-handed arrests of two journalists by drug police during separate operations in the past two weeks, and the arrests of the daughters of a third journalist in one of the incidents, especially as violence against journalists is rare in the Dominican Republic. In both cases, local prosecutors endorsed the arrests by members of the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), whose actions were condemned as “anti-journalistic, anti-democratic, (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 24 juin 2014